CENTRE FOR LEGAL INTEGRATION IN AFRICA (CLIA)
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Welcome to the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa (CLIA)
Our newly launched Centre conducts pioneering research on the dialogue between state laws and indigenous African laws. Policy-makers everywhere will do well to focus on this dialogue, which offers a platform for the integration of legal orders in sub-Saharan Africa.
Our web channel highlights our engagement with the challenges and opportunities related to this, and provides visitors with news, blogs, listings of our publications, and external resources.
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Understanding the relevance of African customary law in modern times
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Read more>> Mission: About us
| Our missionCLIA pioneers interdisciplinary research, policy engagement and social outreach on legal pluralism in Africa. It uses the innovative concept of adaptive legal pluralism to shift scholarly and policy attention from conflict of laws to dialogue between state laws and indigenous African laws. Read more ... |
| Our teamWith a stellar team of researchers and advisory board, CLIA is designed to be a confluence of interdisciplinary research on the interaction of legal orders in sub-Saharan Africa. Prof Anthony Diala is CLIA's Acting Director. Read more ... |
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Our focusDigital technology has transcended many of the physical and spatial limitations on the performance of work. ‘Reimagining employment’ has become a buzzword. At the same time, these developments have also transcended many of the critical institutions of labour law. These, too, must be reimagined and the target is continuously moving as new forms of technology introduce yet more change. Scholars... Read more ... |
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![]() | NEWS: UWC Faculty of Law launches new research centre On Monday 9 November 2020, the Department of Private Law in the Faculty of Law at UWC launched its first research centre, the Centre for Legal Integration in Africa (CLIA). The event, which was chaired by the Head of the Private Law Department, Professor Francois du Toit, occurred online via Google Meet. |
![]() | BLOGS: Understanding the relevance of African customary law in modern times | By Anthony C Diala African customary law is controversial. This is due to the dissonance between the past and present. The social settings in which Africans interact have changed over time. These changes have been characterised by a tense relationship between indigenous customs and statutory laws with colonial origins. |
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News: Uber and Lyft Could Gain From U.S. Rule Defining Employment | By Noam Scheiber |
>> Publications: Featured works
FEATURED PUBLICATION: Courts and transformative constitutionalism: Insights from South Africa Type: Books and chapters Diala, Anthony C (2019). 'Courts and transformative constitutionalism: Insights from South Africa’ The enactment, implementation, and adjudication processes of laws form the bedrock of democratic societies, since they underlie the relationship between the three branches of government. Just like human interaction, however, intergovernmental relationship is often problematic. Specifically, when judicial review occurs, there is always the spectre of overturning, amending, and reinterpreting leg... Other publications
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FEATURED PUBLICATION: Towards Legal Regulation of Platform Work: Theory and Practice Type: Academic journal articles Darcy du Toit, Sandra Fredman, Mark Graham (2020). Towards Legal Regulation of Platform Work: Theory and Practice Digital platform work, while playing an increasingly important part in low as well as high income countries, is characterised by an absence of effective labour regulation. In particular, the norm is for workers to be classified as ‘independent contractors’, thus placing them beyond the ambit of labour legislation. The article, based on interactive research by the Fairwork project, examines... Other publications
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